James Hall
UpAGear Team Coach
Exec & Leadership Coach
Locations: Saudi Arabia, the Middle East & EU
Executive coach working with senior teams achieving focused, cohesive action and targeted results.
Executive Summary
James Hall is based in Saudi Arabia. He works with senior leadership teams across the Middle East and Africa.
His primary expertise lies in helping manage commercial operations in high-risk, defence and security environments.
James spent 30 years in the British Army before moving into commercial operations in the Middle East, operating in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, and Yemen.
As a senior officer, James was the Defence Attache at the British Embassy in Nigeria. James is particularly interested in improving team performance in cross-cultural environments.
Focus Areas:
• Defence. Security. Procurement.
• Corporate, large and medium scale
• Aligning members of teams to a unified purpose
• To ensure effective activity by the “engine room”
• That produces correct, targeted outputs
• And Mission success
• In multi-cultural environments
• In high threat regions and environments
Coaching Approach
James’s approach is based on the relationship between decision-making by senior leaders and the outputs achieved by those they direct.
Quantitative and qualitative data is used to identify whether strategy, plans and day-to-day direction are achieving the mission. The approach seeks to ensure that the top of an organisation provides cohesive and coherent direction that enables the “engine room” to deliver success.
James seeks to make flexible use of formal analytical processes that build high-functioning leadership teams and therefore successful organisations.
Proven Impact
In 12 years of commercial consultancy since leaving the Armed Forces, James has worked with numerous businesses:
- For a large European corporation, he worked with a team to refresh the product line and become the world’s leading manufacturer of sensitive detection equipment.
- In the Middle East, he worked with a Government defence ministry to create their first-ever successful integrated procurement team.
- In Nigeria, he supported the West African Union in rebuilding an inter-governmental team that brought peaceful reconciliation to a corner of the Region.
Credentials
- UpAGear qualified since 2019
- Specialised in defence and security and related procurement
- Senior leader in defence and security businesses across the Middle East and West Africa
- Senior British Diplomat
- Master’s in Business Administration and Defence from Cranfield University
- Master of Arts, Pembroke College, Oxford
Working in the Middle East, Africa, and the UK, in person and online